Courtney Elizabeth Mauk, author of Orion’s Daughters and Spark What is your writing schedule like now, and how do you anticipate it will change when the baby is born? For years I’ve been very fortunate, teaching part-time with a lot…
Courtney Elizabeth Mauk, author of Orion’s Daughters and Spark What is your writing schedule like now, and how do you anticipate it will change when the baby is born? For years I’ve been very fortunate, teaching part-time with a lot…
Benjamin Parzybok, author of: Couch, Sherwood Nation Age of kids: 7 (girl) and 10 (boy) What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Before kids, I did a thing which seems right…
Elizabeth Heineman, author of Ghostbelly: A Memoir (Feminist Press, 2014) Age of kids: And . . . here’s where it starts to get hard. 22 and 3? Or 22, 3, and the one who’d be going on 6 if he…
Peter von Ziegesar, author of The Looking Glass Brother: A Memoir Age of kids: 13, 16, 18 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Back when I didn’t have kids (it…
Leah Bassoff, author of: Lost Girl Found (Groundwood Books) along with a co-author, Laura Deluca Age of kids: 11 and 13 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Even before kids,…
Amanda Miska, author of short stories and flash fiction in (or forthcoming from) Whiskey Paper, jmww, CHEAP POP, Buffalo Almanack, The Collapsar, Storychord, Five Quarterly, Cactus Heart, Cartridge Lit, Counterexample Poetics, Pea River Journal and elsewhere. Age of kids: 4.5…
Peter Mountford, author of A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), and The Dismal Science (Tin House Books, 2014) Age of kids: 2 and 4 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids,…
Sharma Shields, author of: Favorite Monster: Stories (Autumn House Press) and The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac: a Novel (forthcoming from Holt in 2015) Age of kids: Henry, age 4; Louise, age 2 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like…
Pamela Erens, author of The Virgins; The Understory Age of kids: 16 and 17 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? I spent the first nine years after college working full-time…
Jimin Han, author of short stories and essays, some of which can be found online at NPR’s “Weekend America,” The Rumpus.net, The Good Men Project, Kartika Review, and KoreanAmericanStory.com. I’m working on a novel centered on a college campus shooting…